Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaigner," growled House Republican Leader Joe Martin, "and when I want votes, I go after 'em. Now Sam's an old campaigner too. When he needs votes, he'll go after them too." In jockeying for position on the first U.S. civil rights bill since Reconstruction, Martin and Democrat Sam Rayburn had gone after votes so skillfully that they were deadlocked. Result: late last week, after days of glaring at each other from a distance, the old campaigners were forced to get together on a compromise of a compromise of a compromise...
...Committee to hold out against the Senate bill, set New York's Republican Representative Kenneth Keating to working out a party position on the bill with Acting Attorney General Bill Rogers. Then Joe Martin, who ordinarily confers a dozen or so times a day with his old friend Sam Rayburn, announced that he was not on "talking terms" with "Mr. Rayburn...
Deep Stuff. Martin did not even send Rayburn the proposal worked out by Keating and Rogers. Instead, newsmen handed Sam a copy. He read it once, grunted, read it again, then again and again, finally announced: "This is very deep stuff. I'll have to have a little more time to digest it." Whereupon he disappeared into his office, taking with him four fellow Texans to aid in the digestive process. The Republicans' "deep stuff": 1) the contempt of court provisions of the bill would apply to violations of voting rights only, and not to all criminal contempt...
...Sam Rayburn consulted with Northern liberal Democrats, who warned him that the Republican plan would be politically difficult for them to oppose. Late one afternoon, Rayburn went over to the other side of the Capitol for a heart-to-heart talk with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. They agreed that some sort of civil rights bill had to be passed at this session; otherwise, the party-splitting issue would return to plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate...
...minutes later the two old House leaders, both in close touch with developments, finally got together. Joe Martin arose from .his minority leader's table and trudged the 30 feet up to the Speaker's dais. Joe and Sam whispered together for about five minutes. Could they have been talking about civil rights? "Oh, no." said Joe Martin. "We were just talking about when we're going home...